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"The box office performance of "War of the Demon Tide" has exceeded 20 billion, which is indeed amazing enough."

“It’s been featured in CCTV’s special reports and news programs.”

Liu Yifei put her arm around Wu Yuan's arm from behind and said with a smile.

The box office performance of "War on Tide of Devil" is indeed very good. The box office has exceeded 25 billion in 20 days after its release. The authorities are considering issuing an extension key for this movie to be released for another month.

This is the first movie in the Chinese film market to break the 20 billion box office!
Even Hollywood blockbusters have never achieved such good box office results in China!
Now, both online and offline, netizens and the public are talking about it, and are surprised and proud of the box office performance of "War of the Demon Tide".

After all, before that, the Hollywood movie "Avatar" dominated the Chinese film market's box office for nearly 6 years!
It is indeed somewhat embarrassing that a foreign language film dominates the box office in its own country.

Look at Japan and South Korea in East Asia. The top-grossing movies in their countries have always been domestic films.

Now, China too!

Many netizens have made bold guesses online, believing that the final box office of "War of Demon Tide" could be as high as 25 billion if the extension key can be approved.

Even Liu Yifei was looking forward to it.

However, Wu Yuan saw it very clearly and was not carried away by this victory. He knew that 20 billion was the box office limit of "War of the Demon Tide". Even if it was released for another month, it would only increase the box office by tens of millions to million at most.

The audiences who should watch this movie have already watched it within this month. Even if the rest of the people follow the hype about "War of Demon Tide" on the Internet, they will not go to the cinema to watch it in real life. Instead, they choose to wait for the film source to be released online on Guangying Kuaibo.

Moreover, Wu Yuan knew that the film "War of Demon Tide" would not maintain its title of the No. 1 box office in the history of mainland China for long.

Many netizens now believe that the 20 billion box office record of "War of the Demonic Tides" will definitely be maintained for several years.

After all, the highest-grossing movie before that, "Avatar", only had a box office of less than 14 billion yuan, and it lasted for six years before being broken.

Now "War of Demon Tides" has directly raised this record to 6 million. It should be maintained for at least three to five years, right?

No matter how confident one is in the Chinese film market, one would not think that exceeding 20 billion yuan in box office revenue is an easy thing.

But China’s film market is just so exaggerated!

Wu Yuan knew clearly that 2015 would be the first year that the Chinese film market would reach the 20 billion yuan mark for a single film.

"Fast and Furious 5", which will be released in May, will set a new box office record of 7 billion yuan in mainland China!

"Monster Hunt", which will be released in July, will also take in over 7 billion yuan at the box office.

Of course, as we all know, "Monster Hunt", which has experienced many twists and turns, including cast replacement controversy, box office fraud, and box office buying, has been questioned by public opinion. Its box office performance must be inflated, and very inflated.

But what is certain is that the box office performance of "Fast and Furious 7" is real.

The 20 billion box office performance of "Forbidden Kingdoms" will not be maintained for long and will be broken again by "Fast and Furious 7".

But it doesn’t matter, Chinese films have indeed grown.

In 2016, "The Mermaid" was even more of a heavyweight, taking in 33 billion yuan at the mainland box office, not to mention Wu Yuan's "Ready Player One" waiting in the wings.

From now on, the top box office in mainland China’s film history will no longer be related to foreign language films, and this record will be constantly broken by Chinese language films.

Such "brilliant" performance of the mainland film market is indeed something that current Chinese movie fans and people in the industry cannot predict or imagine.

It can only be said that the development of the mainland film market is too abstract and too rapid to be understood. "The box office record of "War of the Demonic Tide" will not last long." Wu Yuan held Liu Yifei's delicate hand with his backhand and said with a smile.

Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows. She didn’t understand what Wu Yuan meant, but she had another understanding: “Yes, there’s Ready Player One waiting for you. You will definitely be able to break this record next year.”

Liu Yifei has always been full of confidence in her husband.

This time, "Ready Player One" is a commercial special effects blockbuster that is not inferior to "Independence Day" at all. It is also the science fiction blockbuster that Wu Yuan is best at. There is absolutely no problem in breaking the record again!
Although Liu Yifei's understanding was a little bit off, Wu Yuan had no intention of continuing to explain. He just nodded reservedly.

He does think that "Ready Player One" can break records. Although it is a bit difficult to break the record of "The Mermaid", it should be no problem to break the records of "On Tides of Destiny" and "Fast and Furious 7".

To be honest, as a science fiction blockbuster, "Ready Player One" is indeed at a disadvantage.

This movie doesn't have the "fairy-tale sentiment" of "The Devil's Tide" to sell, nor does it have the hot spots of Chinese culture to hype. To be honest, in terms of time, place and people, it can't be compared with "The Devil's Tide".

When Spielberg's version of "Ready Player One" was released in 2018, the box office in mainland China was only 13 billion yuan.

Wu Yuan expects the box office of this movie to be 25 billion, which is indeed very bold and shows great confidence in himself. He is betting that his own hard power and reputation accumulated over more than ten years can bring him the effect of man conquering nature!
"Okay, it's time to go to bed. I have to go to the company tomorrow." Wu Yuan pulled Liu Yifei up and took her to the bedroom.

The next day, a little after ten in the morning, Wu Yuan arrived at the Age of Light and Shadow.

The atmosphere of the Spring Festival has completely passed, and the company has been in operation for more than half a month. After a month's vacation, Wu Yuan has to start working honestly.

However, before going to the editing room to check the post-editing of "Ride the Wind", Wu Yuan first came to Li Xiaoping's office to learn about the company's recent situation.

2015 was the year when the domestic film and television industry completely exploded.

Not only is the movie market exploding, the TV drama market will also see a market explosion this year. Various video platforms have also entered the era of money and have begun to spend a lot of money to produce their own dramas.

Although he had made some preparations, Wu Yuan was still somewhat worried that the company would go astray at this important juncture.

After all, he is not an Internet giant like Penguin or Alibaba, who has tens of billions of funds to burn.

If the company is really crazy enough to spend money to compete with Internet companies for actors to make TV dramas, then it is really overestimating its own capabilities.

Fortunately, Li Xiaoping did not make such a foolish decision.

"Director Wu, the TV drama industry is really hot right now."

"Some first-line actors have been offered 200 million per episode. Some even earn to million yuan for a TV series!"

"Nowadays, the cost of making a TV series can even soar to 100 million or 200 million, which is not much different from making a special effects blockbuster!"

In response to Wu Yuan's question, Li Xiaoping sighed in distress and said, "So, the company can only use its own artists to produce some self-made dramas now, and most of them are using new actors."

"For example, there is a newcomer in the company named Reba, who has been signed to the company for two or three years. She never had the opportunity to play the leading female role before, but this time she was arranged to play the leading female role in a TV series adapted from a novel."

"It's because all the top actresses in the company have gone to take on other roles, so they can only use cheap newcomers like her to star in their own plays."

"It's funny to say that we can't even afford to use our own artists."

"This TV drama market is really too crazy and has become somewhat distorted." (End of this chapter)